The girl can't help it

A great rock n roll musical, masterfully written and directed, in Scope, by Frank Tashlin. Godard was a big fan, there are lots of cartoon references and the colours are great.

Rome ep 5 & 6

The child story is a bit tedious, but the rest was good, all the nastiness and quite barbaric too.

Rome ep 4

In fact the way it is film is quite annoying and the music is awful.

Rome ep 3

Still the way they speak and annoying but it goes along nicely.

Rome Ep 2

A bit less good than the 1st episode.

Double indemnity

Classic Paramount film noir (never as good in this genre than RKO or Fox), with a great cast and screenplay from Chandler (and sharp dialogue) set in LA, all in pure 40's style. It's a shame we watched the TV remake first as it spoilt the plot.

Amarcord

Fellini remembers in youth in Rimini, with a great cast of odd and weird characters. There is no plot and is just a series of vignettes, some at very good, others a bit less so, but overall it is a very charming film.

Brick

Interesting take on film noir, in modern day SoCal, around a college, also inspired by David Lynch, quite weird, with a strange rhythm, and almost incomprehensible dialogues, not bad from a young director with limited budget, visually good, but a bit messy.

Rome Ep 1

It takes a little while to get use to the Eglish language that is spoken (a bit too modern), but the production looks great and the story quite good so far.

KIcking and Screaming

I thought there was as much pseudo intellectualism from a bunch of students in that one than in Metropolitan, but in fact I slightly prefered the latter. Having recently seen The squid and the whale, which I really liked, I was disappointed by Kicking and Screaming.

Silent Hill

Adapted from the Konami game by Roger Avary for Christophe Gans. It feels like a video game, too many useless monsters actually spoil the tension, it would have been much more frightening without all the CGI things moving around. Good production design from Carol Spier.

Tales of ordinary madness

A pretty extreme film, with a bunch of fucked up character lead by a great Ben Gazzara, and a lost Ornella Muti in the dark despaired sides of LA. Some bits are almost unbearable, bu it is a sad and moving film, quite restarined for Marco Ferreri but unforgettable.

Les solitaires

A fairly dark and depressing film from Jean-Paul Civeyrac, about loneliness and loss of a loved one again. Not his best.

The squid and the whale

Baumbach obviously can be compared to wes Anderson, and has a similar quirkiness, so this quite a bittersweet film (about a couple divorcing, and their kids being messed up), it's a bit sad and quite funny too (a mix of comedy and drama), and it is tight and short at 80 minutes.

The wicker man

Completely wacko film about paganism on a small Scottish island. A cult film, and that's understandable as it is really far out, not particularly scary though, but weird and good.

Love in the afternoon

The last of the moral tales, another weak, confused man, this time married and being pursued and kind of pursuing an old acquaintance, until he runs away back to his wife as he is about to go to bed. Not as good as Night at Maud and La Collectionneuse which are my favourites.